A WOMAN has finally written
to me who can fluently read the shorthand notes
on the Heinrich Himmler documents I have.

"I can read it," she tells me. "Shorthand is
like handwriting. People write it differently
but Himmler wrote a very nice shorthand."

October
24, 2008 (Friday)Windsor
(England)

At 11:45 a.m. Del C. of Celebrity Big
Brother phones me to say that the producers
have decided not to invite me to participate in
their January 2. 2009 series after all.
[SEE
LINKS - Sept
30, Oct
7]. I had
written them diffidently two or three days ago,
after our meeting at the Kensington Hilton,
requesting an early decision, as I cannot hold
the month open for them much longer; I thank him
for their courtesy in telling me so swiftly.

Doing live, or nearly live, television is
always a huge attraction, and the fee would have
been nice, but not the, um, attendant
difficulties.

Still, I wonder who put the "NO" stamp on it
and why? I suspect that upon meeting me they
felt I was not the raving lunatic they needed.
Just as well. If they want a major liar and
blame-denier, they ought perhaps to choose
Professor Richard
"Skunky" Evans.